Kim’s Comments (group member since Mar 29, 2011)

Kim’s comments from the Onondaga Free Library group.

Directions: Please choose TWO books from either category.

Fiction


Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress
By: Dai Sijie


Dracula
By: Bram Stoker


Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
By: Karin Desai


Catch-22
By: Joseph Heller


Slaughterhouse-Five
By: Kurt Vonnegut


Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens


Native Son
By: Richard Wright


Crime and Punishment
By: Fyodor Dosroevski


A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce


The House of Spirits
By: Isabel Allende


Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison


The Trial
By: Franz Kafka


Cry, the Beloved Country
By: Alan Paton


The Mists of Avalon
By: Marion Zimmer Bradley


The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin


Inferno
By: Dante Alighieri


The Metamorphosis
By: Franz Kafka


Le Morte d'Arthur
By: Thomas Malory


The Things They Carried
By: Tim O'Brien


The Fountainhead
By: Ayn Rand


The Iliad(Rouse Translation)
By: Homer


East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck


Gulliver's Travels
By: Jonathon Swift


The Kitchen God's Wife
By: Amy Tan


Candide
By: Voltaire

Non-Fiction


Quiet Strength
By: Tony Dungee


Nickel and Dimed
By: Barbara Ehrenreich


A Long Way Gone
By: Ishmael Beah


Reading Lolita in Tehran
By: Azar Nafisi


Helter Skelter
By: Vincent Bugliosi


The Modern American Presidency


Angela's Ashes
By: Frank McCourt


Born on a Blue Day
By: Daniel Tammet

Directions: Please choose only ONE book from either category.

Fiction


Midwives
By: Christopher Bohjalian


Inferno
By: DAnte Aligheri


The Red Tent
By: Anita Diamant


The Old Man and the Sea
By: Ernest Hemingway


Schindler's List
By: Thomas Kenneally


The Metamorphosis
By: Frank Kafka


Le Morte d'Arthur
By: Thomas Malory


Atonement
By: Ian McEwan


Beloved
By: Toni Morrison


The Things They Carried
By: Tim O'Brien


The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath


The Fountainhead
By: Ayn Rand


East of Eden
By:John Steinbeck


Gulliver's Travels
By: Jonathon Swift


The Kitchen God's Wife
By: Amy Tan


Candide
By: Volatire


The Color Purple
By: Alice Walker


Brave New World
By: Aldous Huxley


Water for Elephants
By: Sara Grusen


A Thousand Splendid Suns


Nineteen Minutes
By: Jodi Picoult


One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Non-Fiction


Helter Skelter
By: Vincent Bugliosi


Angela's Ashes
By: Frank McCourt


Born on a Blue Day
By: Daniel Tammet


The Glass Castle
By: Jeanette Walls


A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen


Kaffir Boy
By: Mark Mathabane


A Long Way Gone
By: Ishmeal Beah


Mountains Beyond Mountains
By: Tracy Kidder


The Miracle of St. Anthony
By: Adrian Wojnarowski


Zeitoun
By: Dave Eggers


The Other Wes Moore
By: Wes Moore


Into the Wild
By: Jon Krakauer

Directions: Please read only ONE book from any of the three categories.

Biography


I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By: Maya Angelou


Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
Vy: Russell Freedman


Bound for the Promised Land
By: Kate Clifford Larson


Sorrow's Kitchen
By: Mary E. Lyons


John Adams
By: David G. McCullough


The Measure of a Man
By: Sidney Poitier


Galileo's Daughter
By: Dava Sobel


Black Boy
By: Richard Wright


Death Be Not Proud
By: John Gunther


Always Looking Up
By: Michael J. Fox


One Step at a Time
By: Josh Bleill

Fiction



Year of Wonders
By: Geraldine Brooks


Lesson Before Dying
By: Ernest J. Gaines


Life of Pi
By: Yann Martel


Anthem
By: Ayn Rand


The Confessions of Nat Turner
By: William Stryon


The Time Machine
By: HG Wells


The Joy Luck Club
By: Amy Tan


Kissing the Rain
By: Kevin Brooks


When The Legends Die
By: Hal Borland


Grendel
By: John Gardner


The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
By: Mark Hadden


How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
By: Julia Alvarez


I am the Messenger
By: Markus Zusak


The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
By: Sherman Alexie


A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway


Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston


Jane Eyre
By: Charlotte Bronte


Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen


The Stranger
By: Albert Camus


Fahrenheit 451
By: Ray Bradbury


Paper Towns
By: John Green


Monster
By: Walter Dean Meyers


The Good Good Pig
By: Sy Montgomery


For One More Day
By: Mitch Albom

Non-Fiction



Bury My Heart at Wounded Kneww
By: Dee Brown


In Cold Blood
By: Truman Capote


Black Like Me
By: John Howard Griffin


Haven
By: Ruth Gruber


The Devil in the White City
By: Erik Larson


Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller


Founding Mothers
By: Cokie Roberts


Hiroshima
By: John Hersey


With Their Eyes
By: Annie Thoms

Directions: Please choose only ONE of the following books:

Catalyst

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

All Over But the Shoutin'

By: Rick Bragg

Whale Talk

By: Chris Crutcher

The Midwife's Apprentice

By: Karen Cushman

North Star Conspiracy

By: Miriam Grace Monfredo

My Sister's Keeper

By: Jodi Picoult

Mine Eyes Have Seen

By: Ann Rinaldi

The Judgement of Caesar

By: Stevem Saylor

Montana, 1948

By: Larry Watson

Homeless Bird

By: Gloria Whelan

Please Stop Laughing at Me

By: Jodee Blanco

A Prayer for Own Meany

By: John Irving

Private Peaceful

By: Michael Morpurgo

Fallen Angels

By: Walter Dean Meyers

Ask Me No Questions

By: Marina Tamar Budhos

City of Bones

By: Cassandra Clare

Graceling

By: Kristin Cashore

This Lullaby

By: Sarah Dessen

The First Part Last

By: Angela Johnson

Deadline

By: Chris Crutcher

Running Loose

By: Chris Crutcher

The Kite Rider

By: Geraldine McCaurghrean

Peeled

By: Joan Bauer

A Northern Light

By: Jennifer Donnelly

Ashes of Roses

By: Mary Jane Auch

Dicey's Song

By: Cynthia Voigt

In The ATime of Butterflies

By: Julia Alvarez

Chinese Cinderella

By: Adeline Yen Mah

Whispers from the Dead

By: Joan Lowery Nixon

Sports
Playing for Pizza

By: John Grisham

Our Boys

By: Joe Drape

Open

By: Andre Agassi

Shooting Stars

By: Lance Armstrong

Born to Run

By: Christopher McDougall

Non-Fiction
*True Notebooks

By: Mark Salzman

Funny in Farsi

By: Firoozah Dumas

Half-Broke Horses

By: Jeanette Walls

Any books by:MALCOM GLADWELL

Any books by:Greg Mortenson

Any books by:Bill Bryson

Biography/Autobiography
The Color of Water

By: James McBride

*The Glass Castle

By: Jeanette Walls

Ghosts of War

By: Ryan Smithson

Where Men Win Glory

By: Jon Krakauer

Science Fiction
*Any book by:Orson Scott Card

*Any book by:S.M. Stirling

*Any of the Uglies series by: Scott Westfeld


*Hunger Games and sequels by: Suzanne Collins


*Any book from the Maximum Ride series by: James Patterson


Mystery/Thriller
Any book by:Dean Koontz

*+Any book by:James Patterson

*Any book by:Harlan Coben

Any book by:David Baldacci

*Any book by:Brad Meltzer

Humor
*Any book by:David Sedaris

Feeling Sorry for Celia

By: Jaclyn Moriarty

Classics/College Bound
A Long Fatal Love Chase

By: Louisa May Alott

The Killer Angels

By: Michael Shaara

Any book by:Jane Austen

Any book by:Margaret Atwood

*Any book by:Ayn Rand

Historical Fiction
Color of the Sea

By: John Hamamura

*If I Should Die Before I Wake

By: Han Nolan

Sarah's Key

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

Fantasy
*Any book by:Libba Bray

*Any book by:Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

*Any book by:Scott Westerfeld

*Any book by:Tamora Pierce

*City of Bones and sequels by: Cassandra Clare


*Halo

By: Alexandra Adornetto

Contemporary Fiction
Wish You Well(The 2001 CNY Reads Book)

By: David Baldacci

*The Gospel According to Larry

By: Janet Tashjian

*A Thousand Splendid Suns

By: Khaled Hosseini

The Art of Racing in the Rain

By: Garth Stein

*+Any book by:Jodi Picoult

*Any book by:Sarah Dessen

*Any book by:Chris Crutcher

*+Any Book by:Laurie Halse Anderson

Any book by:Carl Hiaasen

*+Any book by:Nicholas Sparks

*Any book by:Anthony Horowitz

Any book by:Adriana Trigiani

Any book by:Dave Eggers(fiction or non-fiction)

* Student Recommended Title

+ Cannot choose a book that has been made into a movie.

All incoming 9th grade students must read:
Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins

All incoming 9th grade students also selct and read one book from the following list:

Sports
Last Shot

By: John Feinstein

Heat

By: Mike Lupica

Fantasy/Science Fiction
Catching Fire

By: Suzanne Collins

The Secret Hour

By: Scott Westerfeld

Unwind

By: Neal Shusterman

Realistic Fiction

The Rules of Survival

By: Nancy Welin

Wintergirls

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

Out of My Mind

By: Sharon Draper

Rumble Fish
By: S.E. Hilton

Canyons
By: Gary Paulsen

Little Women
By: Louisa May Alcott

The War of the Worlds
By: HG Wells

The Illustrated Man
By: Ray Bradbury
Eagle Strike
By: Anthony Horowitz

Monster
By: Walter Dean Myers

Touching Spirit Bear
By: Ben Mikaelson

Among the Betrayed
By: Margaret Petersom Haddix
The Last Silk Dress
By: Ann Rinaldi
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
By:Livia Bitton-Jackson

Soldier's Heart
By: Gary Paulsen

Ghost Soldiers
By: Elaine Marie Alphin

Petticoay Spies: Siz Women Spies of the Civil War
By: Peggy Caravantes

Numbering All the Bones
By: Ann Rinaldi

Under the Blood-Red Sun
By: Graham Salsbury

Jack's Run
By: Roland Smith

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
By: John Boyne

Among the Imposters
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

There's a Girl in My Hammerlock
By: Jerry Spinelli

Dovey Coe
By: Frances O'Rourke Dowell

Freak the Mighty
By: Rodman Philbrick

Stargirl
By: Jerry Spinelli

The Phantom Tollbooth
By: Norton Juster

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: Mark Twain

Searching for David's Heart
By: Cherie Bennet

Skeleton Man
By: Joseph Bruchac

Petey
By: Ben Mikaelson

The Vandemark Mummy
By: Cynthia Voigt

Zach's Lie
By: Roland Smith

Money Hungry
By: Sharon Flake

The Boxes
By: William Sleator

A Year Down Yonder
By: Richard Peck

City of Ember
By: Jeanne DuPrau

The Boy Who Dared
By: Sue Campbell Bartoletti

Yellow Star
By: Jennifer Roy

Promises to Keep: How Jackie ARobinson Changed America
By: Sharon Robinson

Loser
By: Jerry Spinelli

The Dark is Rising
By: Susan Cooper

Don't You Know There's a War On?
By: Avi

Heat
By: Mike Lupica

Heartbeat
By: Sharon Creech

The Secret Garden
By: Frances Hodges Burnett

A Week in the Woods
By: Andrew Clements

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
By: Wendy Mass

A Single Shard
By: Linda Sue Park

A Cool Moonlight
By: Angela Johnson

Everything on a Waffle
By: Polly Horvath

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
By:Brian Selznick

Poppy
By: Avi

Bridge to Terabithia
By: Katherine Paterson
The World According to Humphrey
By: Betty Birney

Shelter Dogs: Stories of Adopted Strays
By: Peg Kehret

There are summer reading lists for each of the local schools here at the reference desk (upstairs). But we are also posting them online here. So, click on the school name of your child to see the reading lists!